is a website designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories. Select from different genres of music or different decades.

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The archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world, including sound effects from TV and Radio programs, plus 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. Listen, or design your own sounds.

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Provides access to thousands of digitized videos and television programmes from the BFI National Archive (and partner organizations) to browse and enjoy, research or study.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.
• Visit BFI Replay
• Introduction and video
• Topic based activities

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An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips, supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material by expert writers, thousands of stills, posters and press books and an education zone for schools.
Available ONLY via library computers or self-service tablets.

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Incorporating the Archive of African American Music, The European Blues Association (EBA) promotes performances of African American Music in its many forms; provides participative educational activities for young people and adults; encourages research into African American Music and its cultural heritage, and in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire, facilitates study and discussion of issues related to the development of Black Music and its relationships with pop music and culture.

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Listen to over 608,000 tracks of Classical, Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music and access biographies of composers, discographies, opera synopses and libretti, and educational resources for GCSE and A-Level.
Listen in the library or at home. Sign in using your library card number.
• Visit Naxos Music Library
• Introductory video
• Search tools video
• Playlists video

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Making a playlist of personally meaningful music
can help people living with dementia
• Playlist for Life
• Resources
• 100 years book - borrow via BorrowBox

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Search the catalogue, and for each title find other suggestions, such as availability in other formats, other titles by the same author, similar titles, or other books borrowed by people who borrowed this title.
• Library Catalogue
• Search support
• Catalogue FAQs
• Make a book suggestion
• Alert profile support

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Search by Author, title or series, and browse by genre. See each title in a series in order. Find all titles & series by an author, titles they recommend, and other authors viewed by visitors.

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Book reviews and recommendations, and a useful place to keep a record of your reading

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Search for a favourite author and see what else readers of this author read. The closer two writers are on the map, the more likely someone will like both of them. Click on any author name to travel their map.

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a comprehensive collection of children’s and young adult books featuring Black and Indigenous Peoples and People of Color (BIPOC). Including picture books from 2002 onwards, and early readers, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult novels published since 2022.

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Discover your next best read, by either mood & emotion, character & plot, geographic setting, or similarity to a specific title.

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A comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus of current English. Plus grammar resources, including New Hart's Rules and Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.

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The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
• Ancestry
• Ancestry Support Centre
• Ancestry videos

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Newspaper content dating from the 1700s.
Register with your email address and set a password. Sign in each time to access the full content for free.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub.
• Visit British Newspaper Archives (BNA)
• Browse by title
• Frequently asked questions
• Searching the BNA (video)
• Using Findmypast and BNA together (video)

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The following are available via Pressreader:
• Genealogy Gazette
• Who do you think you are

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The family history database that includes birth, marriage and death records, census data, electoral registers and land tax documents. Note, for newspaper articles, please sign in to British Newspaper Archives instead.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries, or at the Heritage Hub..
• Findmypast website
• Beginners guide to searching
• Findmypast sitemap
• Findmypast videos
• 1921 Census
• How to search the 1921 Census
• 1939 Register
• Tips on searching the 1939 Register

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Explore hidden histories for every county, district, city and major town. Includes descriptions, photographs and maps.

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Gloucestershire Newspapers: Find out what papers we have and where we hold them - for the whole county!

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This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries, or the Heritage Hub.

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national and local newspapers and magazines via BorrowBox. Access via your library card number and pin.
• Visit BorrowBox ePress
• Getting started with the app (video)

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Issues dating from 1860 to the present, made available via the Access to Research database.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.

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Talking Newspaper services provide audio recordings of local and national news for the visually impaired.

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Print copies of Which? magazine are available at the following libraries: Bishops Cleeve, Cirencester, Coleford, Dursley, Stroud & Tewkesbury.
Access to Which? Online is ONLY available via customer computers at Cheltenham and Gloucester libraries. Please ask staff to sign you in.
For the full Which Reviews, please contact the Ask Us service.
• Ask Us
• Which Online

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Find out about local notices, groups and events that are accessible to anyone living with sight loss.
• Visible eMagazine
• What's On eNewsletter

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Free access to over 30 million academic articles from leading publishers, including science & environment, arts & culture, languages & literature, health & social care, business, history and much more.
Available ONLY via customer computers in libraries.
• Access to Research website
• Searching guide
• Introductory video

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Inform Gloucestershire: Statistics, market research, maps, facts and figures relating to Gloucestershire...

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A combination of each Gazette edition (London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes) under one overarching brand, ‘The Gazette’. Official Newspaper of Record for the UK and a modern, efficient way to disseminate and record official, regulatory and legal information.
• The Gazette
• How to search the Gazette
• Searching the Gazette (video)

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